[ISABEL ALISON lived very privately in the town of Perth,
and was of a sober and religious conversation. She
had now and then heard Mr. Cargill preach in the fields,
and some few others before Bothwell, but not very often—field conventicles
not being common in that part of the country. Upon her
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nonconformity at Perth, and speaking against the severity used upon
some religious people there, she was seized; but nothing else could
be laid to her charge, till she was brought before some of the magistrates,
and, in her simplicity, voluntarily acknowledged converse with
some who had been declared rebels. When the Government were
informed of this, a party of soldiers seized her, living peaceably in
her chamber at Perth, and carried her to Edinburgh.

The Acts of Indemnity referred to in this testimony were a Pardon
and Indemnity, dated June 29, 1679, to all tenants and sub-tenants
who had been at Bothwell, provided they submitted by a certain day;
and a General Indemnity, July 27, 1679. Both are in Wodrow, of the
latter of which he says, it was so clogged that it put no great stop to
the harassing and spoiling of the country by the soldiers.—JHTho.]

The laſt Speech and Teſtimony

of

ISABEL ALISON,

Who lived at Perth, and

Suffered at Edinburgh,

January 26. 1681.

The Interrogations of ISABEL ALISON before the Privy Council.

WHEN I was brought before the Council, they asked me,
Where did ye live, at St. Johnstoun [Perth]? Answer. Yes.

What
was your occupation? To which I did not answer.

The Bishop
asked, If I conversed with Mr. Donald Cargil? I answered, Sir,
you seem to be a man, whom I have no clearness to speak to.

He desired
another to ask the same question: I answered, I have seen him,
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and wish that I had seen him oftner.

They asked, If I knew the duty we owe to the civil Magistrate? I
answered, When the Magistrate carrieth the sword for God, according
to what the Scripture calls for, we owe him all due reverence;
but when they overturn the work of God, and set themselves
in opposition to him, it is the duty of his servants to execute
his laws and ordinances on them.

They asked, If
I owned the papers taken at the Queensferry on Henry Hall? I
answered, You need not question that. They asked, If I knew Mr.
Skeen? I answered, I never saw him.

They asked, If I conversed
with rebels? I answered, I never conversed with rebels.

They asked,
If I did converse with David Hackstoun? I answered, I did
converse with him, and I bless the Lord that ever I saw him; for I
never saw ought in him, but a godly pious youth.

They asked if
the killing of the Bishop of St. Andrews was a pious act? I answered,
I never heard him say, That he killed him; but if God moved any
and put it upon them to execute his righteous judgments upon him,
I have nothing to say to that.

They asked me, When saw ye John
Balfour, that pious youth? I answered, I have seen him.

They
asked, When? I answered, Those are frivolous questions,—I am
not bound to answer them.

They said, I thought not that a testimony.

They asked, What think ye of that in the Confession of
Faith, that Magistrates should be owned, tho’ they were heathens?
I answered, It was another matter, than when those, who seemed
to own the truth, have now overturned it, and made themselves avowed
enemies to it.

They asked, Who should be judge of these
things? I answered, the Scriptures of truth, and the Spirit of
God, and not men, that have overturned the work themselves.

They asked, If I knew the two Hendersons that murdered the lord
St. Andrews?[1] I answered, I never knew any lord St. Andrews.

They said, Mr. James Sharp, if ye call him so. I said, I never
thought it murder: but if God moved and stirred them up to execute
his righteous judgment upon him, I have nothing to say to
that.

They asked, Whether or not I would own all that I had said?
for (said they) you will be put to own it in the Grass-market:[2] And
they bemoaned me, in putting my life in hazard in such a quarrel. I
answered, I think my life little enough in the quarrel of owning my
Lord and Master's sweet truths; for he hath freed me from everlasting
wrath, and redeemed me; and as for my body, it is at his
disposal.

They said, I did not follow the Lord's practice, in that
anent Pilate. I answered, Christ owned his [own] kingly office, when he
was questioned on it, and he told them, "He was a king, and for
that end he was born." And it is for that, that we are called in
question this day, the owning of his kingly government.

The Bishop
said, We own it. I answered, We have found the sad consequence
of the contrary.

The Bishop said, He pitied me, for the
loss of my life. I told him, He had done me much more hurt, than
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the loss of my life, or all the lives they had taken: For it had much
more affected me, that many souls were killed by their doctrine.

The Bishop said, Wherein is our doctrine erroneous? I said, That
was better debated already, than a poor lass could debate it.

They
said, Your Ministers do not approve of these things, and ye have
said more than some of your Ministers; for your Ministers have
brought you on to these opinions, and left you there. I said, They
had cast in baits among the Ministers, and harled them aside; and
altho’ Ministers say one thing to day, and another to morrow, we
are not obliged to follow them in that.

Then they said, They pitied
me; for (said they) we find reason, and a quick wit in you:
And they desired me to take it to advisement. I told them, I
had been advising on it these seven years, and I hoped not to
change now.

They enquired mockingly, If I lectured any? I answered,
Quakers used to do so.

They asked, If I did own Presbyterian
principles? I answered, That I did.

They asked, If I was
distempered? I told them I was always solid in the wit, that God
had given me.

Lastly, They asked my name. I told them, If
they had staged me, they might remember my name; for I had
told them already, and would not aye [ever] be telling them.

One of
them said, May ye not tell us your Name? Then another of
themselves told it.

The Interrogations of Iſabel Aliſon before the Criminal Lords.

BEing called before the criminal lords, they asked me, If I would
abide by what I said the last day? I answered, I am not about
to deny any thing of it.

They said, Ye confessed, that ye harboured
the killers of the Bishop, tho’ ye would not call it murder.
I said, I confessed no such thing.

The Advocate said, I did. I answered,
I did not, and I told them, I would take with no untruths.

He said, Did ye not converse with them? I said, I did converse
with David Hackstoun, and I bless the Lord for it. They said,
when saw ye him last? I answered, never since ye murdered him.

They desired me to say over what I said the last day. I said,
Would they have me to be my own accuser?

He said, The
Advocate was my accuser. I said, Let him say on then.

Then
they went over the things that past betwixt the council and me the
other day, and put me to it, yea, or nay. I said, Ye have troubled
me too much with answering questions, seeing ye are a judicature
which I have no clearness to answer.

They said, Do ye disown
us, and the King's authority in us? I said, I disown you all, because
you carry the sword against God, and not for him, and
have these nineteen or twenty years made it your work to dethrone
him by swearing year after year against him, and his work,
and assuming that Power to a human creature, which is due to
him alone, and have rent the members from their head Christ, and
one another.

Then they asked, Who taught you these principles?
I said, I was beholden to God that taught me these principles.

They said, Are ye a Quaker? I said, Did ye hear me say, I
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was led by a spirit within me? I bless the Lord, I profited much by
the persecuted gospel; and your acts of indemnity after Bothwel
cleared me more, than any thing I met with since.

They said,
How could that be? I said, By your meddling with Christ's interests
and parting them as ye pleased.

They said, They did not usurp
Christ's prerogatives. I said, What then mean your indulgences,
and your setting up of Prelacy? for there has none preached publickly
these twenty years without persecution, but these that have
their orders from you.

Then they caused bring Sanquhar declaration,
and the *[3] paper found on Mr. Richard Cameron, and the
papers taken at the Queen's-ferry, and asked, If I would adhere to
them? I said, I would, as they were according to the Scriptures,
and I saw not wherein they did contradict them.

They asked, if
ever Mr. Welsh or Mr. Riddel taught me these principles? I answered,
I would be far in the wrong to speak any thing that might
wrong them.

Then they bade me take heed what I was saying, for
it was upon life and death that I was questioned. I asked them, If
they would have me to lie? I would not quit one truth, tho’ it
would purchase my life a thousand years, which ye cannot purchase,
nor promise me an hour.

They said, when saw ye the two Hendersons,
and John Balfour? Seeing ye love ingenuity, will ye
be ingenuous, and tell us, if ye saw them since the death of the Bishop?
I said, They appeared publickly within the land since.

They asked, If I conversed with them within these twelve months?
At which I keeped silence.

They urged me to say either yea, or
nay. I answered, Yes.

Then they said, Your blood be upon your
own head, we shall be free of it. I answered, so said Pilate; but it
was a question if it was so; and ye have nothing to say against me,
but for owning of Christ's truths, and his persecuted members.

To
which they answered nothing. Then they desired me to subscribe
what I owned. I refused, and they did it for me.

Account of what Iſabel Aliſon ſaid before the Aſſizers.

Dear Friends,

THese are to shew you what past betwixt the black crew and me.

They read my Indictment, and asked, If I had ought to say
against it? I said, Nothing.

They read the papers as they did formerly,
and asked, If I owned them? I said, I did own them.

Then
they called the assizers and swore them. Then I told them, All
authority is of God, Rom. 13.1, and when they appeared against
him, I was clear to disown them; and if they were not against him,
I would not have been there: I take every one of you witness against
another, at your appearance before God, that your proceeding against
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me is only for owning of Christ, his gospel, and members,
which I could not disown, lest I should come under the hazard of
denying Christ, and so be denied of him.

And when the assize
came, they asked, If I had ought to say against them? I said, They
were all alike, for there would no honest man take the trade in hand.

They said to the assize, it was against their will to take our lives; I
said, If that had been true, they would not have brought me so
far off, pursuing me for my life.

This is the substance of what
past as I remember.

[ARCHIBALD RIDDELL, an indulged minister, and brother
to the laird of Riddell, was employed by the Council to
persuade Isabel Alison and Marion Harvie to conform, but
with no success. He seems to have been a good man, but mistaken
as to his views of the character of the men then in power, for he
soon got into trouble with them. About September 1680, he was
apprehended on the charge of frequenting field conventicles. His
examination occupies about six pages in "Wodrow." It justifies
what Marion Harvie says of his excellence as a preacher. He was
kept in prison for seven months, and then for three or four years
in the Bass; but was ultimately allowed to go to America. On the
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tidings of the Revolution, he left America, June 1689, but on the
way home the ship in which he had set sail was captured by a French
man-of-war, and for twenty-two months Mr. Riddell suffered all the
horrors which prisoners in that cruel age were made to undergo. He
was at last exchanged, but now his ship was driven into Bantry Bay,
where he and the ship's company were plundered by the Irish, and
for eleven days suffered all manner of hardship, until rescued by the
government.

Mr. Meldrum, alluded to by the goodman of the Tolbooth, was
George Meldrum, minister at Aberdeen. In 1681 he left his charge
rather than take the test. Shortly after the Revolution he was called
to Edinburgh, where, says Wodrow, "he preached many years to great
edification, and was a mighty master of the Holy Scriptures, and
blessed with the greatest talent of opening them up or lecturing of
any I ever heard."—JHTho.]

ABout seven of the clock at night the goodman of the Tolbooth
caused call us down, against our will, to be examined by Mr.
Riddel, at the Council's order. So we came down, and were brought
to the west side of the house, to an empty room, where they brought
him in to us; The good man of the Tolbooth being present, and
the keepers, and some Gentlemen with them, and they caused us
sit down.

The goodman of the Tolbooth said, Mr. Riddel, the
Council caused me bring you to confer with these women; to see if
ye can bring them to repentance.

Then we protested, and said,
As for repentance, we know not what fault we have done;

Then,
said they, Ye cannot be the worse to have one of your Ministers to
confer with. We told them, These Ministers being their servants,
we looked no more upon them as Ministers of Jesus Christ; and
therefore he is no Minister to us.

Mr. Riddel asked, If the council
would send Mr. Cargil to us, would we not confer with him? We
said, He was not at their command; but if Mr. Cargil would do as
ye and the rest of you have done, we would do the like with him.

So he offered to pray. We said, We were not clear to join with
him in prayer.

He said, Wherefore? We said, We know the
strain of your prayers will be like your discourse.

He said, I shall
not mention any of your principles in my prayer, but only desire
the Lord to let you see the evil of your doings. We told him,
We desired none of his prayers at all.

They said, Would we not
be content to hear him? We said, Forced prayers had no virtue.

Then we said, What means he to pray with us, more than [h]e did
with our brethren that have gone before us? Mr. Riddel said, Mr.
Skeen conversed with Mr. Robert Ross.

We said, He did not send
for him, but as he intruded himself upon him.

The goodman of
the Tolbooth said, He conversed with Mr. Meldrum; and we smiled
at that, and said, He might talk to him of his perjury, but for
no other thing.

So they urged prayer again. We said, It would
be a mocking of God.

They said, Why so? We said, Because
we cannot join with it.

So Mr. Riddel began to debate with us,
and said, We would not find it in all the Scripture, nor any history
to disown the civil Magistrate. We answered, There were never
such Magistrates seen as we have.

He instanced Manasseh, who
"made the streets of Jerusalem to run with the blood of the prophets." [2 Kings 21.16; 24.3-4]
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We said, it was a question, if he came the length in perjury:

He instanced Joash: We answered, He was but a child
when that covenant was sworn, and it was not so with these that he
now pleaded for.

Then he instanced Nero, how he set the city on fire
and robbed the churches; and yet notwithstanding the Apostle exhorteth
submission to the Magistrates then being. We answered, it
was in the Lord, and as they were a terror to evil doers.

He said,
Altho’ they were wicked, yet they should not be altogether cast off.
We said, Before their excommunication we would not have been so
clear to cast them off.

He said, There were but only seven in the
excommunication, then why do ye cast at all the rest? We answered,
These seven carried the great sway, and the rest came in
under them.

He said, How can one man take upon him to draw
out the sword of excommunication, for the like was never heard
tell of in no generation? We answered, Why not one
man, since there were no more faithful, and the Church hath
power to cast out scandalous persons, be they high, be they low.

He said, Who is the Church? We said, If there was a true Church
in the world, that little handful was one, tho' never so insignificant,
of which handful we own ourselves a part; and tho' our blood go
in the quarrel, yet we hope, it will be the foundation of a new
building, and of a lively Church

He said, Thought we all the Ministers wrong? We answered,
We desire to forbear, and not add; for we desire not to speak of
Ministers’ faults. And we desired him to forbear, and let us be gone;
but he urged his discourse, and fell on upon the papers, that were
taken at the Queen's-ferry, chiefly on that part of them: "When
God gives them power, it is a just law, to execute justice upon
all persons that are guilty."

And he came to us, and laid by his
coat, and said, Would ye stab me with a knife in my breast, even
now? And we smiled, and said, We never murdered any:

But
said he, they sware to do so. We said, Why did he not debate
these things with Men, and not with Lasses? For, we told him,
We never studied debates.

He said again, Thought we all the Ministers
wrong? We answered, They were wrong, and forbad him
to put us to it, to speak of Ministers’ faults; for if he knew what we
had to say of them, he would not urge us. So we desired
to be gone.

And he said, if ye come to calm blood, [and] desire me, or any
other of the ministers, to speak to you, ye may tell the keepers
and ye may have them:

And there was a Chirurgeon [surgeon] among them,
and the good man of the Tolbooth said, He might draw blood of
us for we were mad. We said, Saw ye any mad action in us?

This
is all we can mind at present.

The dying Teſtimony and laſt Words of ISABEL ALISON.

I Being sentenced to die in the Graſs-market of Edinburgh, January
1681. thought fit to set down under my hand, the causes
wherefore I suffer. I being apprehended at Perth, in my own chamber,
by an order from Council, and brought to Edinburgh with
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a strong guard, and there put in prison, and then being examined
first by a Committee, and then by the criminal Court, the manner
of my examination was: First, If I conversed with David Hackstoun
and others of our friends? Which I owned upon good
grounds. 2dly, If I owned the excommunication at the Torwood,
and the papers found at the Queen's-ferry, and Sanquhar declaration,
and a paper found on Mr. Cameron at Airsmoss? All which
I owned. Likewise I declined their authority, and told them, That
they had declared war against Christ, and had usurped and taken his
prerogatives, and so carried the sword against him, and not for
him: So I think, none can own them, unless they disown Christ
Jesus. Therefore let enemies and pretended friends say what they
will; I could have my life on no easier terms, than the denying
of Christ's kingly office. So I lay down my life for owning and
adhering to Jesus Christ, his being a free King in his own
house, for which I bless the Lord, that ever he called me to
that.

Now in the first Place, I adhere to the holy Scriptures of the old
and new Testament. And likewise I adhere to the confession of
Faith, because according to the Scriptures, the larger and shorter
Catechisms, and our solemn Covenants, both National and solemn
League, as they were lawfully sworn in this land; and I adhere
to the Acknowledgement of sins, and Engagement to Duties; I adhere
likewise to these forementioned papers, and to the excommunication
at Torwood, they all being according to the Scriptures of
truth, and so both lawful and necessary. Likewise I adhere to the
Rutherglen Testimony, and to all the testimonies of our worthies,
who have suffered in Edinburgh, and elsewhere.

In the next place, I enter my protestation against all the violation
done to the work of God these twenty years bygone, First, The
burning of the Covenant made with God, and the Causes of God's
wrath, and the thrusting in of Prelates into the Lord's house, contrary
to the word of God, and our sworn Covenants. I leave my
testimony against Popery, which is so much countenanced at this
day, against the receiving that limb of Antichrist the Duke of York.
Likewise I leave my testimony against all the Blood-shed both on
scaffolds, and in the fields, and seas; and against all the cruelty used
against all the people of the Lord. And I leave my testimony against
the paying of that wicked cess, for maintaining of these profane
wretches, to bear down the work of God. I leave my testimony
against all unlawful bonds. And likewise against the shifting
of a testimony, when clearly called by the Lord to give it.

I leave
my testimony against all profanity of all sorts, and likewise against
lukewarmness and indifferency in the Lord's matters. I leave my
testimony against the unfaithfulness of Ministers, first and last, their
silence at the first, when their Master's work was broken down, for
the most part they slipped from their master's back, without so much
as giving one word of a testimony against the wrongs done to him;
and now are become a snare to the poor people in going to hear the
Curates, and poor things following their example, are ensnared;
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my finding the sad experience of it, brings it the more into my memory.
Yet notwithstanding of their being convinced of their error
in this, many of them carry now, as if they rued that ever they
came forth to the fields to proclaim their master a free King in his
own house; And now they are fallen in under the shadow of sworn
enemies, and alas! they are become profound to lay snares; yea,
"they are a trap upon Mispeh, and a net spread upon Tabor!" [Hosea 5.1.]
Oh, for the sad defection both of Ministers and professors in Scotland
! ’Tis like our carriage may make many of our carcasses lie in
the wilderness.

I leave my testimony against the indulgences, first,
and last, and against all that comply therewith, or connive thereat.
I leave my testimony against the censuring of worthy Mr. Cameron,
or any other whom God raised up to declare the whole counsel of God
and to witness against the evils of this generation. I fear when God
makes inquisition for blood, Ministers' hands will not be found free
thereof. As for charging my blood on any particular person, I cannot,
for I have never gotten the certainty of what hath brought me
to the Stage; but if any have done it willingly, I leave it to God,
and their own conscience. But I may warrantably charge it upon all
the declared enemies of God within the land.

And first, I leave it on
the bloody council, that sent an order to take me, for they are
guilty of it.

2dly. The Sheriff-clerk of Perth, and these that
were with him, when he took me, are guilty of it; the Sheriff-clerk
of Kinros, and the men that guarded me, are all likewise guilty
of my blood; and

I leave my blood on Sir George Mackenzie,
and the rest of that bloody court, and I take the Lord to witness against
them, whether or not it was on easy terms, that they offered
me my life; they said only, they would not trouble me with their
Bishops; but I said, that supremacy was as evil as Prelacy. And
they said, That I behoved to say, that the King was not an usurper,
and pass from all my former Confession, and that it was my
duty to obey authority. I told them, That they were sworn enemies
to God, so it was impossible to obey God, and them both;
so I told them, I would not retract an hair-breadth; They said,
Thought I ever that he was our lawful king? I said, Yes; for he
entered into covenant with God, and with the land: But he hath
broken and cast off that tie, and hath exercised so much, both tyranny
and cruelty, that I had just ground to decline him, and
them both. Then they bade my blood be on my own head; but I
told them, they would find it would be on their heads, for it was
for my owning of Christ's kingly office, that they put me to suffer,
say the contrary who will. Now I bless the Lord, I am free from
Jesuitical principles. The Scripture is my rule, and when obedience
to men is contrary to obedience to God, I am clear to disown
them.

I leave my testimony against Mr. Riddel, for his obeying
these wicked men to ensnare us, and to hold out to us, before these
accursed enemies of Christ, that were seeking our lives for our adhering
to the truth, that it was all delusion that we held. I many
times rued, that I bare so well with him, and now I hear, that he denies
that which we wrote. But if ye will believe me, who am within
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a little to appear before God, there was nothing added but
rather wanting. I wish the Lord may forgive him. I bless the
Lord, what strikes against my self only, I can very heartily forgive,
but what strikes against God and his truths, I leave that to God, who
is the judge of all.

Now I would only say this to you, who are seeking to keep your
garments clean, "Be sober, be vigilant, for your adversary the devil
goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." [Rev. 3.4; 1 Pet. 5.8.]
And as I would have you be zealous for the truth, and not to quit
one hoof, so I would have you labour against a spirit of bitterness;
beware of self; and be more ready to mourn for the slips of others,
than to make them the subject of your discourse; and labour to
make earnest of religion, for I find there is need of more than a good
cause, when it comes to the push. O the everlasting covenant is
sweet to me now!

And I would also say, they that would follow
Christ, need not fear at the cross, for I can set to my seal to it, "His
yoke is easy, and his burden is light." [Matth. 11.30.] Yea, many times hath
he made me go very easy through things that I have thought I
would never win through: He is the only desireable master; but he
must be followed fully. Rejoice in him, all ye that love him,
"Wherefore lift up your heads, and be exceeding glad, for the
day of your redemption draweth nigh," [Luke 21.28.]: Let not your heart
faint, nor your hands grow feeble. Go on in the strength of the
Lord, my dear friends, for I hope he will yet have a remnant both
of sons and daughters, that will cleave to him, tho’ they will be
very few; "even as the berries on the top of the outmost branches." [Isa. 17.6.]
As for such as are grown weary of the cross of Christ, and have
drawn to a lee-shore, that God never allowed, it may be e'er all be
done it will turn like a tottering fence, and a bowing wall to them,
and they shall have little profit of it, and as little credit:

But what
shall I say to the commendation of Christ and his Cross? I bless the
Lord, praise to his holy name, that hath made my prison a palace to
me; and what am I that he should have dealt thus with me? I have
looked greedy-like, to such a lot as this, but still thought it was too high
for me, when I saw how vile I was; but now the Lord hath made
that Scripture sweet to me in the 6th [chapter] of Isaiah, "Then flew one of
the seraphims to me, having a live coal in his hand, and he laid it
on my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thy
iniquities are taken away, and thy sins purged."

O how great is
his love to me! that hath brought me forth to testify against the
abominations of the times, and keeped me from fainting hitherto,
and hath made me to rejoice in him. Now I bless the Lord, that ever
he gave me a life to lay down for him.

Now farewell all creature-comforts;
farewell sweet Bible; farewell ye real friends in Christ;
farewell faith and hope; farewell prayers and all duties; farewell sun
and moon, within a little I shall be free from sin, and all the sorrows
that follow thereon. Welcome everlasting enjoyment of the Father,
Son, and holy Ghost, everlasting love, everlasting joy, everlasting
light.

Edinburgh Tolbooth, Jan. 26. 1681.

Sic ſubſcribitur ISABEL ALISON.
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BEing come to the scaffold, after singing the 84th Psalm, and
reading the 16th [chapter] of Mark, she cried over the scaffold, and
said, "rejoice in the Lord ye righteous: And again, I say
rejoice." Then she desired to pray at that place, and the
Mayor came and would not let her, but took her away to the ladder
foot, and there she prayed.

When she went up the Ladder, she
cried out, "O be zealous, Sirs, be zealous, be zealous! O love the
Lord all ye his servants, O love him, Sirs! for in his favour there
is life."

And she said, "O ye his enemies, what will ye do, wither
will ye fly in that day? For now there is a dreadful day
coming on all the enemies of Jesus Christ. Come out from among
them, all ye that are the Lord's own people."

Then she said, "Farewell
all created comforts. Farewell sweet Bible, in which I delighted
most, and which has been sweet to me since I came to prison.
Farewell Christian acquaintances. Now into thy hands I commit
my Spirit, Father, Son, and holy Ghost." Whereupon the hangman
threw her over.

Footnotes:

1. Andrew Henderson and Alexander Henderson, in Kilbrachmont, are among the twelve mentioned by Russel as concerned in the deed.—JHTho.

3.This Paper being taken from him at his Death, by the Enemies who
slew him; no Copy thereof (for what I know) has ever been procured,
and hence it cannot be certainly known what was the nature of it.—Note by the original Compiler of the "Cloud".